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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Social Media School - Intermediate

SoCal Tech Calendar

Google Docs - Sharing Documents and project collaboration. *Ifttt-How to automate your entire internet life *Paper.li - How to create daily content from people you follow. Dropbox - How to create your own virtual hard drive. Aggregators - The importance of a good social media aggregator. Google Analytics - Where is all my traffic coming from?

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

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There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. It's little known, but we were going to sign the docs on a Series A two days after we got the LOI for TeleNav. But, do they really help? Were you looking at acquisition, or did it just come up?

Startup 225
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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

socalTECH

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Now, I run a hedge fund and finance firm in Southern California.

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To the Moon!

Eric Greenspan

We make stuff work “from computers to iPods to home theater.&# Our fleet of Mini Coopers are cruising all over Socal. That’s all the doc could tell us. Just a reminder to myself of my goals and ambitions. I’m the CEO of Make It Work, Inc. We have 34,000 customers already, but we need more more more.

Blogging 100
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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. So my only advice to Huddle was pick a narrow enough scope to have a product category where you can be the BEST and you can scale in that category. I don’t like the idea of taking on WebEx or GotoMeeting. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration?

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

Tech Zulu Event

andi lets you 1) multitask on screen with live panels and transition to and from multiple task sets, 2) browse offline docs and apps in the same multitask environment as online activities, and 3) organizes and manages unlimited panels and queues in a single active session. Silver Sponsors.

CalTech 100